Four Ugandans appear in Secunda Regional Court again on several charges

Lydia ‘Sandra’ Mojemba (37), Seyikabi Wilson (49), Jingo Wassua (38) and Njombozi Katiti (46), four Ugandan nationals, appeared in the Secunda Magistrate’s Court again on May 16.

The four are facing charges of human trafficking, kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, illegal abortion of a baby and being in the country illegally.

This comes after the four were arrested in Ogies in July 2018 after they abducted Mojemba’s niece on July 13, 2018, and performed an illegal abortion on her.

The niece, also a Ugandan national, was lured to South Africa by her aunt to come and work for her.

Mojemba was allegedly handing out pamphlets advertising services such as abortions and traditional healing.

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When the niece was eight months pregnant, the aunt allegedly kidnapped her, with the help of the other three accused and she was taken from her house in Secunda to Ogies.

She was then locked in a room and forced to undergo several abortion attempts before her baby boy was stillborn and dumped next to the train tracks near a bridge in Ogies.

The niece managed to escape from the room after a few days and fled to Secunda where she told her boyfriend about her ordeal. He contacted the police who went to Ogies and arrested the four accused.

One of the accused, who does not have an attorney and is representing himself in court, was in the witness stand on Thursday and gave his testimony of the events.

The case was postponed to May 22.

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